Sentence examples for as a rake from inspiring English sources

Used to be thin as a rake.

(His reputation as a rake was not without foundation).

It's as utilitarian as a rake; it's news you can use.

Unfortunately, his reputation as a rake was also so established that he was promptly rejected.

For this man, thin as a rake, was hefting quantities of cardboard boxes up and down the stairs.

I was skinny as a rake for a long time when the band, the Happy Mondays, started in 1985.

Some people can eat cake and still be as skinny as a rake, I'm not like that.

He set up his studios in squalid neighborhoods, developed a Byronic reputation as a rake and gambled recklessly ("Debt stimulates me," he once said).